Talk:Milton Wright (academic)

Dinner party
This is not mentioned anywhere. He did not simply bump into Adolf Hitler at a dinner party, he was granted an audience by Adolf Hitler. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.197.138.173 (talk) 21:19, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

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Well, he does seem to have existed - I doubted it at first, and his name his too common (I doubt he was a bishop, or the father of the Wright brothers :-) ) -and gotten a doctorate at Heidelberg - here is his dissertation Die Wirtschafts Entwicklung und die Eingeborenenpolitik in den afrikanischen Schutzgebieten, 1884-1918, (Economic Development and Indigenous policy in the African Protectorates, 1884-1918)  about which Unter deutschen Palmen: Die"musterkolonie" Togo im Spiegel deutscher Kolonialliteratur(1884- 1944) By Adjaï Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon says "setzt sich Milton Wright mit der Frage der Behandlung der Schwarzen in den Deutschen Kolonien auseinander.  Er listet zwar "einige der hervorragendsten Falle ... Estudos sôbre o negro By Antônio da Silva Mello has this to say: "Milton Wright, um americano mais preto que mulato, formado em filosofia pela Universidade de Heidelberg, na Alemanha, brilhante pelos seus predicados intelectuais foi convivado..." So I'll deprod.John Z (talk) 23:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Getting his initials took some time, but they give a good number of RSs for him He was entertained by Hitler himself at a dinner party, so the radio anecdote isn't so farfetched..John Z (talk) 23:53, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Coshocton Tribune, April 25, 1958, article Wilberforce Professor Will Speak at Golden Rule Dinner seems to have some bio data and a picture of him, not free.John Z (talk) 22:57, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Additional biographical details
Additional biographical details to add to this article (if correct): Milton Samuel J. Wright, born in Savannah, Georgia, June 28, 1903, the son of William Wright and Edith Burnside Wright. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 21:13, 16 July 2022 (UTC)